1 Chronicles 2:23
(Geshur and Aram captured the towns of Jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding towns.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.
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- Num 32:41-42 : 41 Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair. 42 Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.
- Deut 3:14 : 14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites and Maacathites(namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth Jair, which it retains to this very day.)
- Josh 13:13 : 13 But the Israelites did not conquer the Geshurites and Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this very day.
- Josh 13:30 : 30 Their territory started at Mahanaim and encompassed all Bashan, the whole realm of King Og of Bashan, including all sixty cities in Havvoth Jair in Bashan.
- 2 Sam 13:38 : 38 After Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he remained there for three years.
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- 1 Chr 2:21-222 verses85%
21Later Hezron slept with the daughter of Makir, the father of Gilead.(He had married her when he was sixty years old.) She bore him Segub.
22Segub was the father of Jair, who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- Num 32:39-413 verses76%
39The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
40So Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he lived there.
41Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair.
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13Ben Geber was in charge of Ramoth Gilead; he controlled the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan, including sixty large walled cities with bronze bars locking their gates.
- Deut 3:14-152 verses75%
14Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites and Maacathites(namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth Jair, which it retains to this very day.)
15I gave Gilead to Machir.
- Josh 13:30-312 verses75%
30Their territory started at Mahanaim and encompassed all Bashan, the whole realm of King Og of Bashan, including all sixty cities in Havvoth Jair in Bashan.
31Half of Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities in the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were assigned to the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh, to half the descendants of Makir by their clans.
- Judg 10:3-42 verses74%
3Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.
4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair– they are in the land of Gilead.
- Num 26:29-302 verses74%
29The Manassehites: from Machir, the family of the Machirites(now Machir became the father of Gilead); from Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
30These were the Gileadites: from Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; from Helek, the family of the Helekites;
- 1 Chr 7:14-174 verses73%
14Manasseh’s Descendants The sons of Manasseh:Asriel, who was born to Manasseh’s Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead.
15Now Makir married a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites.(His sister’s name was Maacah.)Zelophehad was Manasseh’s second son; he had only daughters.
16Maacah, Makir’s wife, gave birth to a son, whom she named Peresh. His brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.
17The son of Ulam:Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh.
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11Their territory also included Gilead, Geshurite and Maacathite territory, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah–
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25Their territory included Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half of Ammonite territory as far as Aroer near Rabbah.
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41Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah– a total of sixteen cities and their towns.
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23The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
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33He conquered all the land of Gilead, including the territory of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh, extending all the way from the Aroer in the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.
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12Distribution of the Transjordanian Allotments This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.
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25So Israel took all these cities; and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
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11Within Issachar’s and Asher’s territory Manasseh was assigned Beth Shean, Ibleam, the residents of Dor, the residents of En Dor, the residents of Taanach, the residents of Megiddo, the three of Napheth, and the towns surrounding all these cities.
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80Within the territory of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its pasturelands, Mahanaim and its pasturelands,
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25From the half-tribe of Manasseh they assigned Taanach and Gath Rimmon, along with the grazing areas of each– a total of two cities.
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28The land allotted to the tribe of Gad by its clans included these cities and their towns.
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36Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah(or Gederothaim)– a total of fourteen cities and their towns.
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25As for the settlements with their fields, some of the people of Judah settled in Kiriath Arba and its neighboring villages, in Dibon and its villages, in Jekabzeel and its settlements,
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6for the daughters of Manasseh were assigned land among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.
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23Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
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26the men of Ramah and Geba: 621;
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1The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. They were assigned Gilead and Bashan.
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53Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah,
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22Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, both of whom ruled in Moab and Jashubi Lehem.(This information is from ancient records.)
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16They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its surrounding settlements, and in the pasturelands of Sharon to their very borders.
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28for those in Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa,
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33The Gershonite clans received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.
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29On the border of Manasseh’s territory were Beth Shean and its surrounding towns, Taanach and its surrounding towns, Megiddo and its surrounding towns, and Dor and its surrounding towns. The descendants of Joseph, Israel’s son, lived here.
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71The following belonged to Gershom’s descendants: Within the territory of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and its pasturelands and Ashtaroth and its pasturelands.
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25Jehoahaz’s son Jehoash took back from Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.
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19Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley,
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13But the Israelites did not conquer the Geshurites and Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this very day.
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62The clans of Gershom’s descendants received thirteen cities within the territory of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh(in Bashan).
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4We captured all his cities at that time– there was not a town we did not take from them– sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the dominion of Og in Bashan.
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6These were the descendants of Ehud who were leaders of the families living in Geba who were forced to move to Manahath: